American Soldier - Rilegato

Franks, Tommy; McConnell, Malcolm

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ISBN 10: 0060731583 ISBN 13: 9780060731588

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2004

Riassunto

A memoir by the former head of the U.S. Central Command who led American and coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq traces his childhood in the Midwest, his four-decade military service that included a tour of duty in Vietnam, and his experiences during and after the September 11 attacks. 1,000,000 first printing.

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L'autore

General Tommy Franks retired from the Army on August 1, 2003. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1967 as a distinguished graduate of the Artillery Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he was assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, Republic of Vietnam. He also served as an Assistant Division Commander during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. General Franks has been awarded three Defense Distinguished Service Medals, two Distinguished Service Medals, and four Legion of Merit awards. His other decorations include three Purple Hearts, three Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and an Army Commendation Medal -- all with "V" for valor. In 2004 he was named a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. General Franks lives with his wife, Cathy, in Tampa, Florida.

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General Tommy Franks served as the Commander-in-Chief of Centcom, the military authority that led the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from late 2001 to 2003. These wars were planned and implemented by a very small group of key players: President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and General Tommy Franks. American Soldier is the first in-depth account by one of these players: a dramatic, intimate - and candid - insider's look at the march to war, from the man who commanded the campaigns. Previous books on the Iraq War, such as Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, have only scratched the surface of this story. American Soldier - which is already being pursued by every major news network - will contain headline after dramatic headline, drawn directly from Franks's own experience and from recently declassified records available here for the first time. Among the subjects covered: The definitive first-person account, minute-by-minute, of the process of planning both wars: how the decisions were made and why; The most frank and revealing portrait yet of America's wartime leaders in the Bush White House, the Rumsfeld Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department, and the role their personalities - and sometimes stormy partnerships - played in the moments of critical decision; The most authoritative - and no-holds-barred - account of the Iraq War: from what went right during the initial phase, to what has gone wrong thereafter...including Franks's candid assessment of postwar planning, and the situation in Iraq today; An insider's account of what the United States knew about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program - where the intelligence pointed, what we found, and what it means; General Franks's eye-opening predictions for the future of the region and American democracy in an era of endless conflict

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060731583
• ISBN 13: 9780060731588
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 590